lex_cheapeats

This thread REALLY makes me feel better - I get teased a lot about the number of cookbooks I have... I only have 250 - but that's not counting the ones on loan to friends, the ones at the in-laws cottage (I started a library there), and the ones at my family cottage.

Dry it... I know it sounds odd... but it is beautiful added to soups and stews in the winter when you can't get that great green flavour except from cellephane spinach.

Bookshelves, bricks & boards, milkcrates piled to pretend they are bookshelves... and then I ask my father-in-law (who makes wooden toys) to make me something "custom", that never quite fits either the space or the items I want to put on... Until the Great Kitchen Disaster of '01, I used a glass shelving unit. Looked very cool and stylish. Way slicker than the milk crates, but functionally the same... well... not quite functionally the same. Milk crates don't smash nearly as well when a bottom side of the shelf gets bumped too hard. My kitchen still smells of Almond extract.